A FB friend of a FB friend said that cars kill more people than guns, and should be regulated more because they're more dangerous, and guns are comparatively harmless. He regurgitated the nonsense that our personal gun collections are all that is stopping the government from taking away all our rights, because it's afraid of us. Finally, he ( Read more... )

These are my thoughts as I get to know my brand new baby ( Read more... )

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My house sold today. I am officially not a home owner at all ( Read more... )

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One of the hardest things for us about living in Santiago is that Chilenos don't drink fluids. At restaurants they have these skinny glasses like you would give a child who might spill it, like 4 or 6 ounces. No place has heard of free refills, they just think that one little glass will do it for you. All the glasses in our apartment are little ( Read more... )

SATURDAY:
So we had a long weekend because of a Chilean holiday on May 21, and decided that that was our chance to take a bus over the Andes and visit Mendoza, Argentina before winter really set in and shut the mountain roads down.
We packed one backpack, and decided to wear the same clothes for the whole trip, with extra underwear so we don't get ( Read more... )

So the air in Santiago is pretty much the worst air we have ever seen. It’s worse than Phoenix or LA. It’s got to be some kind of weather inversion thing from the coming winter, because there aren’t as many cars here as there are in Phoenix, and a lot of them are natural gas vehicles. There’s epic public transit throughout the metro. There’s just ( Read more... )

This is an interesting place.

I came here because I thought I spoke the language. But if no one here uses consonants in any of their words, then I have no idea what language they are speaking. Eventually they all smile condescendingly, realizing I'm just a stupid gringo who can't speak Spanish, and then stop trying to talk to me. I hear my coworkers ( Read more... )

I "finished" the Law Review write-on today, and I use the term loosely. We had all week to write a 15-page paper about a case, and correct all the errors in a different 17-page paper. But Monday we spent in Salt Lake. Tuesday I mostly worked on getting an apartment in Santiago (less than two weeks before our arrival), then dinner with another ( Read more... )